It’s time for fresh peaches. This seems to be a wonderful year for them. Both the white and the yellow peaches are extremely juicy. There have been so many different varieties at the Farmer’s Market that I’ve been curious about them. I discovered a great website featuring the various varieties here in California. The website is that of the California Tree Fruit Growers. This group is concentrates on peaches, plums and nectarines.
The bonus connected with this website is it’s wealth of recipes for these specific fruits. My favorite ways to eat peaches, besides just chomping into them, is in cobblers, pies and jams. I was looking for something new. This website has a good selection of recipes – everything from beverages, salads, entrees, and deserts. What caught my eye was a recipe for a peach muffin. This muffin is called healthy but it didn’t taste like most things described as healthy. This was moist and delicious. Here’s the original recipe. (The picture is from the website.)
Healthy Oat Peaches and Cream Muffins
Ingredients:
- 1 cup flour
- 3/4 cup quick oats
- 2/3 cup plus 1 tablespoon firmly packed brown sugar, divided (I only used 1/2 cup plus the 1 tablespoon. My peaches were sweet.)
- 1/3 cup oat bran
- 2 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 cup low-fat cream cheese
- 1 cup peeled, chopped peaches, divided
- 1 cup skim milk
- 3 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 1/3 cup toasted, chopped walnuts
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350°F and spray 12 muffin tins with non-stick cooking spray. Combine dry ingredients in a medium bowl, reserving 1 tablespoon brown sugar; mix well and set aside. Stir together cream cheese and the reserved 1 tablespoon brown sugar. When well blended, fold in 1/4 cup peaches. Add milk, oil, vanilla and egg to dry ingredients, mixing just until dry ingredients are moistened. Lightly stir in remaining peaches and walnuts. Spoon 3/4 of the mixture into prepared muffin tins. Place a teaspoonful of the cream cheese mixture in the center of each then spoon remaining batter over the top. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
Makes 12 Servings
How about you? What’s your favorite way to eat peaches?
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THese muffins look great — perhaps I’ll make them next week when I get back from the farmers market.
I have a peaches recipe up today too — one of my standbys!
Oh, these just look mouthwatering! Thanks for the recipe!
Peaches never last long enough in our house for me to do anything with them. We eat them out of hand too fast. I’ll be cooking once apples are ripe around here since those we buy by the bushel.
They grow some fantastic peaches just down the road from us. We usually just chomp down on them, but I did make some peach sorbet the other day that was fabulous.
As soon as I get my oven fixed, I’ll be giving this recipe a try!
Yum. I have just started experimenting with peaches and for some reason haven’t had the best of luck. I’ll have to check out the website.
Love peaches to eat raw, but not crazy about peach pie/cobbler. Would love to try this though.
Mine is HERE
Yum! Here I am visiting at 11 p.m. == and your post is giving me the midnight munchies! This is one for me to save b/c no oven in the RoadTrek. (Too hot anyway.) I love California Farmer’s Markets — there are none better.
Mmmh, that sounds really good.
This looks delicious! I guess my favorite way of eating peaches is fresh – I can go through a whole basket (or at least, that’s what it feels like when I’m finished binging on them!). One of my favorite baked goods is this peach baked pudding thing that the local coffee shop features – it looks like a flat-topped muffin but it is very dense and peachy.
Yum! Those muffins look fantastic — your photo should be in a magazine!
I usually eat them by simply chomping into them. I’ve never been peach-picking (we stick to apples and berries), but I think that peaches are in season here now. Thanks for dropping the idea of a great day trip for the kids this week.
Oh those look great. I could even put some Blushing Peach Jam on them yummy!
I would eat all of these…I think I’m the only one in the house that really enjoys peaches!